Mes: agosto 2019

(AP) UNITED NATIONS – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accused President Barack Obama on Thursday of seeking to exploit the Arab uprisings for personal political gain, as he addressed a sideline meeting of the U.N. General Assembly via videolink from his hideout at a London embassy. The Australian activist has sheltered inside Ecuador’s embassy in London – beyond the reach of British police – since June 19, when he sought refuge after he exhausted all legal routes to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning over sex crimes allegations. Assange and his supporters claim that the Swedish sex case is part of a Washington-orchestrated plot to make him stand trial in the United States over his work with WikiLeaks, which has published thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic cables and other documents. Both Sweden and the U.S. reject that claim. At a sideline meeting organized by Ecuador, the activist attempted to draw parallels between himself and the instigators of the Arab Spring – claiming that they had all been let down by Obama. “It must come as a surprise to Tunisians for Barack Obama to say the U.S. supported the forces of change in Tunisia,” Assange said, speaking from Ecuador’s tiny apartment-sized London mission. He claimed that uprisings across the Arab world had been inspired, in part, by his organization’s disclosures about despotic rulers, including Tunisia’s deposed President Zine El Abidine Ben...

Updated at 2:05 p.m. ET (CBS/AP) UNITED NATIONS – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is making his case against Iran before the United Nations General Assembly, arguing that time is quickly running out to stop the Islamic Republic from becoming a nuclear power and the threat of force must be seriously considered. “At this late hour, there is only one way to peacefully prevent Iran from getting atomic bombs, and that is by placing a clear red line on Iran’s nuclear weapons program,” Netanyahu said. His demand that President Obama declare red lines that would trigger an American attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities has been rejected in Washington and sparked a public rift between the two leaders. But Netanyahu said at U.N. headquarters Thursday that nothing could imperil the world more than a nuclear-armed Iran. “To understand what the world would be like with a nuclear-armed Iran, just imagine a world with a nuclear-armed al Qaeda,” Netanyahu said. At the beginning of his address Thursday, he disputed Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s statement from earlier in the week that Israel has “no roots” in the Middle East. Netanyahu told the gathered world leaders and diplomats: “The Jewish people have come home. We will never be uprooted again.” During his three-day visit, Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, Canadian Prime Minister...

LOS ANGELES — Brad Pitt was unable to put the cat out of first place at the weekend box office. Walt Disney’s “The Lion King” reissue was No. 1 for the second-straight weekend with $22.1 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. That puts it just ahead of Pitt’s baseball drama “Moneyball,” a Sony Pictures release that opened at No. 2 with $20.6 million. Debuting closely behind at No. 3 was the Warner Bros. family film “Dolphin Tale” with $20.3 million. “Dolphin Tale” stars Harry Connick Jr., Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman. The 3-D reissue of 1994’s “The Lion King” has taken in $61.7 million since opening the previous weekend to a much bigger audience than expected. That’s on top of nearly $800 million worldwide the movie made in its original run and a 2002 re-release. Photos: Dolphin’s prosthetic tale comes to big screenImages: Angelia, Brad play “Moneyball”Photos: Fall films 2011 The film has done so well that Disney plans to leave it in theaters longer than the two-week run the studio initially planned as a prelude to its Blu-ray home-video debut Oct. 4, said Dave Hollis, Disney’s head of distribution. The studio has not yet decided how long or how widely the film would play theatrically after the Blu-ray release, Hollis said. “Consumers I think will be happy to consume it in multiple ways for this kind of franchise,...

When Jeff Coffin plays his saxophone, magic happens. The Dave Matthews Band saxophonist has a set of pipes that can rock any woodwind that comes his way. He can even play alto and tenor sax simultaneously, paying homage to the late, great saxophonist Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Coffin has played with some of the best in R&B, funk, and bluegrass, classical, world, folk, jazz and rock/pop music – from three-time Grammy winning, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones to Garth Brooks to the Wailers. And when he’s not on the road with DMB, Coffin fronts his own group called Jeff Coffin & the Mu’tet, who just released their new special edition, 2-CD set, “Jeff Coffin & the Mu’tet – LIVE!” He has shared the stage with an additional stellar lineup of musicians – ranging from Branford Marsalis, Phish, Willie Nelson, Van Morrison, Dixie Chicks, DJ Logic, Brooks and Dunn, Martina McBride, Lynyrd Skynyrd, among many others. Also a bandleader, composer and educator, Coffin literally lives and breathes music and is a firm believer that you can never stop learning with music always changing and mutating. “The one constant in life is change, so to me the one constant in music should be change. It’s open-ended, we can sort of mutate things as we want,” he tells CBSNews.com. “It’s not a quartet or quintet it’s a mu’tet,” referring to his band, “so...